Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a sly grin, Wendell Willkie used the quotation to make a telling point: the Republican Party need not accept the stencil that it is the party of high tariffs and protectionism; it should take the lead today in bringing about renewal of reciprocal trade treaties and Lend-Lease extension...
...British Who's Who. To Joseph Stalin (who already has a bonnet from the Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius was in, but not Henry Kaiser. Still in: Adolf Hitler; still out: Premier Hideki Tojo...
...some areas throughout the country, sales of clothes were up 200% or more over 1942 sales in the same period, and the textile market, already short because of huge Army and Lend-Lease buying, was the tightest since the war started. Both Price Administrator Brown and WPB's Donald Nelson issued reassurances that clothes rationing would not be necessary-an assurance contradicted by the fact that a week before Nelson had told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that by fall it might be necessary. Biggest runs were on higher priced, well-made women's clothing-indicating that although...
Said she: "On the very day the shooting stops, the British naturally desire to be in a position to put muscles and. flesh on their international airways system. And perhaps even fat in some places-with Lend-Lease planes. . . . Our farsighted British cousins . . . have seen that the masters of the air will be the masters of the planet, for as aviation dominates all military effort today, so it will dominate and influence all peacetime effort tomorrow." (Into the Congressional Record she put long passages from House of Commons speeches demanding that British interests be guarded...
...according to figures released by the Department of Commerce, the U.S. exported some $7.8 billions of goods while importing only $2.7 billions. The exports, representing around 70% Lend-Lease shipments of food and munitions, were bigger than in 1917 (see chart) but somewhat smaller than in 1919 and 1920, when the U.S. exported a record $7.9 and $8.2 billions...